Birthday: 1927-02-09
Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
The experiences and relationships of five senior students at a rural high school, during the last ye...
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Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
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Kodama learns that his old classmate Hayashi is getting married to an idol, and organizes a junior h...
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Eighteen-year-old Isamu works at a coffee shop. Rebelling against his father, he eloped with Momo (Y...
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A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three ...
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On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer....
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A violent detective who can handle assault and blackmail in a straight forward manner....
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Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re...
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Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza...
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The comical adventures of two long-distance truck drivers, Momojiro and Kinzo, continue. Momojiro an...
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This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a...
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Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their execut...
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A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with...
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A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of...
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A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko...
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A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering po...
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The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s....
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Shimoda, Izu, the venerable Amimoto Onabe family is repeatedly harassed by the upstart Hotate family...
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The fish market is to be moved to Shinagawa, and Tasuke Isshin (Jun Inoue) got in trouble. Hikosaemo...
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Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of he...
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A biographical drama depicting the life full of love and suffering of the writer and poet Kenji Miya...
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A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. ...
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Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her hu...
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Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her buddin...
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Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated b...
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Kyoshiro rescues Shizu who was being abused by her husband, even since she had been violated by the ...
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The first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a criminal,...
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Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family for an old man asked Sawa to sleep with h...
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While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party,...
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A nurse is framed for her involvement in the hospital murder of a politician who was threatening to ...
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Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor...
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Momotaro and Hidemaro are 1st-years at Otokojuku, a private boys school where true men are made. Mom...
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A political satire comedy depicting the turmoil caused when the residents of a small island in Okina...
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During Tenpo period, Bakuhu announced a law regulating expenditures in order to improve the financia...
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Executive management of a major Tokyo construction company are getting bumped off one after another....
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After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la...
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Middle-aged farmer Noda Masao (Daichi Yasuo) is a good, honest man, but his attempts for marriage ha...
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The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, co...
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A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of findin...
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Daigaku, member of the circus, is involved in a certain case and is suspected by Detective Hattori a...
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This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter S...
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Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest...
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Suspense TV movie adaptation of an original story by Sawako Ariyoshi, starring Yukiyo Toake....
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After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a re...
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Natsuko Kotani was born to be a swindler. Meanwhile, Tetsuko Ishida is Natsuko’s distant relative. U...
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Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers....
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Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-sa...
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The lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war, Japan ...
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A group of cool guys strolling through the streets of Yokohama. They are Tatsu of Morocco and the ga...
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A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotia...
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An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, l...
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"Elite" members of an insurance company are gathered together to form a unit to investigate an accid...
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The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the y...
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The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around...
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This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells ...
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In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in tru...
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Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a...
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Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dic...
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Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists....
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Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second...
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Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for ...
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Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill syst...
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Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking c...
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A trading company employee's girlfriend loses her memory while on a trip. In place of the friend who...
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Two sisters living on a peach farm in Koori town, Fukushima Prefecture,are opposites. Haruka Miyamot...
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Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's large...
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A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk....
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Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Decidin...
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Jun, a 16-year-old teen, refuses to stand while the national anthem is being played at his graduatio...
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An office lady joins a "mistress bank", starts falling in love with her client and gets involved in ...
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Samonji, a reporter, receives a message on his answering machine from his friend Takada that says "s...
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Aki, who loves freedom, mets Masaya, an aspiring watchmaker. The two have opposite personalities and...
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Yuki Kimura, a company president's secretary, agrees to marry his son Yutaka on the president's reco...
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A double suicide happens in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. The two were employees of rival real estate...
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Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling again...
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Third movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of assass...
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A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the...
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Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the...
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The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders ...
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A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visi...
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Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers...
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Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangs...
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The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service...
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Brings Shingo face to face against Yagyu Tajima, the Shogun’s fencing instructor in a match that cou...
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After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Depa...
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Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Sh...
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Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and n...
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A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots....
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The film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Tsutomu Mizukami. A large-scale detective ...
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The second-generation president and his brother-in-law of the Toba clan, a don of the music world, a...
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Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith...
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When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to thei...
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A lone chef challenges the taste of his food against the “Japan Cooking Committee”....
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In the former landfill, where construction is currently underway, the corpse of a middle-aged man wi...
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Four taxi drivers are found dead in four days. Suddenly, a taxi, trying to avoid hitting a patrol ca...
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A burnt corpse of a man was found in Okutama. As a result of the investigation, it turns out that th...
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This is a story of "Takechiyo," the previous name of Iemitsu Tokunaga, the third Shogun (General). T...
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Ammo scavengers make a living gathering the unexploded bombs and shell casings from the U.S. militar...
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